This is what I say to thee, Hamish, an' to thee, Donald: fear God, an' ne'er lightly heed a gude mother's advice.

It's weel wi' the lads that carry a mother's blessing through the warld wi' them." Lile Davie.
LILE DAVIE.
In Yorkshire and Lancashire the word "lile" means "little," but in the Cumberland dales it has a far wider and nobler definition.

There it is a term of honor, of endearment, of trust, and of approbation.

David Denton won the pleasant little prefix before he was ten years old.
When he saved little Willy Sabay out of the cold waters of Thirlmere, the villagers dubbed him "Lile Davie." When he took a flogging to spare the crippled lad of Farmer Grimsby, men and women said proudly, "He were a lile lad;" and when he gave up his rare half-holiday to help the widow Gates glean, they had still no higher word of praise than "kind lile Davie." However, it often happens that a prophet has no honor among his own people, and David was the black sheep of the miserly household of Denton Farm.

It consisted of old Christopher Denton, his three sons, Matthew, Sam, and David, and his daughter Jennie.